Bloodthirsty arsenic
scientists have detected arsenic-induced damage to a type of white blood cells among people from North 24-Parganas district in West Bengal. "Chromosomal aberrations (cas) like breaks, deletions and gaps in peripheral lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) have been found in people drinking water contaminated with arsenic,' says Ashok Kumar Giri, who heads a team of researchers from two Kolkata-based institutes